BIG CONFERENCE HAUL FOR GLADS

The Chabot baseball team was rewarded for earning a third consecutive conference championship with six first-team All-Coast-North selections.
Interim head coach Bryce Mendonca received Coach of the Year honors.
The Glads first-team picks are starting pitchers Eli Gennis and Daniel Hernandez; infielders Daniel Behrmann and TJ Costello; outfielder Terrel Romain; and utility Juan Pablo Manzo.
Second-team picks are starting pitcher Cole Aney; reliever AJ Hattaway; catcher Joe Coupland; and infielder Nico Defazio. Making honorable mention was outfielder Cole Jones.
Chabot, CSM and Skyline shared the conference title with 15-5 records. The Glads (28-14) bowed out of the 3C2A NorCal Regional Playoffs last week, dropping a three-game series as the No. 8 seed against No. 17 Delta, 2 games to 1 at Steve Friend Stadium.
The never-say-die Glads battled back from a stunning 11-1 deficit through two innings in Game 3 only to fall 14-9 on Saturday afternoon. TJ Costello's two-run shot in the eighth inning trimmed it to 13-9.
Chabot took Game 1 of the series 7-3 on Friday as Aney delivered a quality start and Hattaway worked two scoreless innings in relief to nail it down. Four Glads had home runs: Costello, Defazio, Coupland and Noah Morton.
Delta stayed alive with a win in extra innings, 5-4, Saturday before closing it out.
In 2024, Chabot and Skyline were co-conferencing champs, a year after Chabot was the outright champion.
The Glads had a power-hitting lineup this season and tyoicsl tean-first approach. Behrmann finished No. 2 in the conference in batting average at .383, just ahead of Costello (.381), who was also No. 2 in RBI with 42 in just 36 games. Romain was fourth in RBI with 39. Manzo slugged a team-high 10 home runs to rank fourth in the conference, one spot ahead of Costello and Coupland. Behrmann also stole 22 bases to tie for third. Hernandez is fifth in ERA at 3.97, and Aney tied for second in wins with eight.